Ruwaida Amer: “I am a person. I am not a number.”

Last April 6, Al Jazeera published a column by a young woman named Ruwaida Amer about the shock of war suddenly entering her life. 

It begins: “I’ve been thinking about writing a will.”

And it ends: “Is it possible that all it would say on my shroud would be ‘a young woman in a black/blue blouse’? Could I die as an ‘unknown person’, just a number?”

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